S. Korea: Mayor of Daegu pleads for volunteers as mask queues run long The mayor of Daegu, South Korea's fourth largest city and the epicentre of a new coronavirus outbreak says that there is absolutely a lack of medical staff in the city, and urgently pleads for volunteers to take action. Queues to purchase face masks continue to snake through the city, as the confirmed cases of the coronavirus reach almost 1,600 in the country. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES